Producer's Notes from the CD booklet
by George Feltenstein:
"This very special album from Turner Classic Movies Music/Rhino
Movie Music marks the premier release of the complete score
of M-G-M's Annie Get Your
Gun, as recorded by both its star, Betty Hutton, and Judy Garland, who was
originally cast as Annie. Although M-G-M Records released an Annie Get Your
Gun soundtrack album when the film hit theaters in 1950, that release featured
only eight songs, bypassing "I'm An Indian, Too" and "Colonel
Buffalo Bill." Garland's recordings remained buried in the studio vaults,
except for "You Can't Get A Man With A Gun," which M-G-M Records included
in several Garland compilation albums. In the 1970s bootleg LP's of Garland's
prerecordings surfaced, with horrendous sound quality. Nevertheless, collectors
were thrilled to hear the Annie who might have been. The Hutton soundtrack was
reissued several times by M-G-M Records in various forms, with the last release
in 1973, paired with Show Boat.
Many of the Garland tracks had their first legitimate release several years ago
as part of the Turner Classic Movies Music/Rhino Movie Music set Judy
Garland: Collector's Gems From The M-G-M Films, and both Garland and Hutton
tracks have appeared on other TCM/RMM releases. This collection finally provides
all of the material on one album, and it also includes a few instrumental tracks,
never before released. Unfortunately, not all of M-G-M's prerecording masters
for Annie Get Your Gun survived in their original form, and several
different
sources had to be used to create this album, including acetate prerecordings
and the composite film soundtrack itself. This explains the wide variation in
sound quality between tracks. Where surviving multi channel recordings were extant,
those tracks have been mixed to stereo from the original sources."
CREDITS
Produced by George Feltenstein
Project Supervisor Patrick Milligan
Mastering & Engineering
by Doug
Schwartz
Art Direction by Hugh
Brown & Greg
Allen
Design by Greg Allen
Creative Services Direction by Lori
Carfora
Liner Notes by George Feltenstein
Photographs Courtesy of Turner Entertainment
Co.
Editorial Supervision Vanessa Atkins
Editorial Research Daniel Goldmark
Editorial Coordination Shawn Amos
Project Assistance Steve Woolard
Special Thanks to Jim
Hughes, Bruce Baggot, Craig Johnson, Miles Krueger, Roger
Mayer, Phil McKenna,
David Reneric, Chuck Shultz, Sherry LeGare & Beth Wetzel
|
